Tiles & Melds
Dragon
Also called: 三元牌, sangen, White (Haku) / Green (Hatsu) / Red (Chun)
The three special honor tiles — White, Green, and Red — that always score.
The three dragon tiles are White (白 / haku), Green (發 / hatsu), and Red (中 / chun). A pung of any dragon scores in essentially every variant — they're 'value tiles' (yakuhai in Riichi). Limit hands like Big Three Dragons (all three pungs) and Little Three Dragons (two pungs + a pair of the third) are among the highest-scoring patterns in MCR, HK, Taiwanese, and Riichi.
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